The current weather and wildfire situation is neither unprecedented nor unexpected. These latest holocausts are a direct consequence of the unprecedented accumulation of 3D continuous fuels as a result of green influence on politics. Ironically, 3D fuels also choke out biodiversity. Twenty four small mammals became extinct in the Western Division of New South Wales, where there was virtually no forest and no clearing or logging, because scrub obliterated their open grassy habitats.